Love Terins (b. 1993, Malmö, SE) holds a degree from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo and Österlenskolan for Konst och Design in Simrishamn. In Terin's paintings, movement, repetition and contrasts are explored. She is particularly concerned with the sensory experience that unfolds in the meeting between the work and the viewer, and how the visuality of the painting has a bodily influence. The paintings alternate between figuration and abstraction, depth and flatness, and appear as a symbiosis of different patterns and colour combinations. The various pictorial elements are often inspired by textiles and painterly expressions, and give the impression of optical illusions of space and movement. Terins sees her paintings as portals into a universe where patterns, shapes and contrasts are transformed by each other. Tight and playful stripes are combined with large flower arrangements and other shapes, opening up for a number of possible interpretations.
Terins is acquired by Norges Bank (NO) and Kunst på Arbeidsplassen (NO).
